telescope

On the top of a mountain in the Chilean desert, an $800 million U.S.-taxpayer-funded telescope just opened its eye.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

Equipped with an enormous 39-meter mirror and advanced scientific instruments, the telescope will give astronomers the ability to detect smaller exomoons that are currently beyond the reach of existing observatories.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026

This elevated vantage point allowed the telescope to capture exceptionally detailed measurements of the Sun's magnetic fields.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026

The meteors are visible to the naked eye so you won't need any specialist equipment like binoculars or a telescope.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

Our Englishman has looked through a telescope and a microscope; he owns a pendulum clock and a stick barometer—and he knows there is a vacuum at the end of the tube.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Together, the telescopes have opened a new window into a largely unexplored population of ancient solar system remnants.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2026

The researchers also had to account for differences among the telescopes used to collect the observations.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026

By revealing these processes in remarkable detail, NASA's Chandra and its partner telescopes are helping astronomers understand the forces that shape galaxies, including our own.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026

Beyond revealing something fundamental about black hole physics, the discovery could help astronomers make much better use of powerful radio telescopes.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

His result, however, suggested that there would be no observational consequences that could be detected by the telescopes of the day.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking

But this time around, in Burkina Faso, the timetable has telescoped.

From BBC ● Jan. 26, 2022

Her authenticity steadies the heartbeat of a film whose cuteness can sometimes grate, and whose telescoped view offers little sense of life beyond Buddy’s block.

From New York Times ● Nov. 11, 2021

There were two wheels at one end and a handle that telescoped out from the base at the other.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 18, 2018

If everything can be telescoped on to him, that would be better all round.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 12, 2017

She walks beside her father with her cane telescoped in one fist, her other hand on his rucksack, everything disconnected from logic, as in nightmares.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

For the encore, they cleared the perimeter of the stadium floor and drove around on giant, telescoping platforms, trailed by inflatable characters, like they were in a Macy's Day parade.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2025

Then we step forward — you can think of telescoping in on finer and finer timescales — we get from the billion year timescale to the hundreds of millions year timescale.

From Salon ● Sep. 29, 2023

Nevertheless, the telescoping cardboard applicator tampon is intimately familiar to almost anyone who’s had a period in the last century.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2023

This trait formed what Ella and I came to call a telescoping process, with parts stretching back across time, marking the discontinuity between past and present, and then collapsing it.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 14, 2023

She walked backward for several steps, her movement inertial, tipsy, and then disappeared down the telescoping tunnel.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee